Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo, Venice. Photograph by Carlo Ponti, c.1850.
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help
this is a modified list of things to do to help people out. the original is a request template for families with new babies, but recently i have wanted to help various people going through hard times, and i like these ideas:1. Buy us toilet paper, (soy) milk and beautiful whole grain bread.
2. Make us a big salad with black Kalamata olives, toasted almonds, organic green crispy things and a nice homemade dressing on the side. Drop it off and leave right away. Or, bring us comfort food, garlic bread, a bag of salad, a big jug of juice, and maybe some cookies to have for dessert. Drop it off and leave right away.
3. Come over at 10 a.m., make me breakfast. Clean my fridge and throw out everything you are in doubt about. Don’t ask me about anything; just use your best judgment.
4. Put a sign on my door saying “Dear Friends and Family, Please come back in 7 days but phone first. All donations of casserole dinners would be most welcome. Thank you for caring about this family.”
5. Come over in your work clothes and vacuum and dust my house and then leave quietly. It’s tiring to chat and have tea with visitors.
6. Take my kids for a fun-filled afternoon to a park, zoo or Science World and feed them healthy food.
7. Make me a giant pot of vegetable soup and clean the kitchen completely afterwards. Take a big garbage bag and empty every trash basket in the house and reline with fresh bags.
These are things people can can do to help that won’t be an intrusion.
January 13, 2010
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Fran Lebowitz and Betsey Johnson at Diane Brill’s birthday party, 1986. (via New York Magazine)
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Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg at the Limelight, 1983. (via New York Magazine)
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January 7, 2010
reframe, a wood frame for posters at Soundscreen Design
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January 5, 2010
Amina Nazari invented a device that allows anyone to record their memories of an object, and hand those down along with it. The entire system is powered by RFID: First, an object is marked with a chip. Then, that chip can be scanned by a reader in the base of the grammophone you see above. Speak into the cone, and that audio snippet gets recorded and logged—anyone who scans it again can replay the message, or add their own. (via Scrapbooking, for the RFID Age | Design & Innovation | Fast Company)this would be way cool if it weren’t just a concept. i wish this property were inherent in certain objects. via slantback. 1 month ago
Portable Fireplaces - another way cool concept. Designed by Fredrik Hylten-Cavallius.
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